\n\t\t\t\t\t\t Baseball fans flocked to West Sacramento as the Athletics hosted the Seattle Mariners in a divisional rivalry, bringing crowds to Sutter Health Park and boosting local businesses. Keith Lee, an A\u2019s fan, expressed his confidence in the team, saying, \u201cWrite it down, drop the mic, whatever you want to do, the A\u2019s are going to win tonight.\u201d Fans from both sides showed their dedication.\u201cBorn and raised die-hard,\u201d said Jeff Shoji, a Mariners supporter from Reno, Nevada. Meanwhile, Corey Lewis flew down from Seattle to see his team play, saying, \u201cWe\u2019re big, huge Mariners fans, so glad to see them in another city.\u201d Local businesses like Drake\u2019s and Birdies saw a surge in customers, with Birdies\u2019 owner reporting two to three times the usual number of patrons on game days compared to days the A’s aren’t playing. Corey Lewis highlighted the appeal of supporting local establishments.\u201cIt\u2019s going to be way better going to a local spot than going to some corporate restaurant or bar,” Lewis said. “You\u2019re going to have a better time.\u201d Jordan Montoya, an A\u2019s fan from the Bay Area, reflected on the importance of supporting the team, especially as they prepare to move to Las Vegas.\u201cI\u2019m sure most of these fans, it\u2019s our childhood. I think it\u2019s important for us growing up A\u2019s fans. Now we\u2019re grown, we have our own money to come support the team,\u201d Montoya said. West Sacramento Mayor Martha Guerrero welcomed the influx of visitors, emphasizing the positive impact on the city.\u201cOne of our goals more heads and beds and being able to get our hotels filled up,\u201d Guerrero said. \u201cI see that local businesses are doing a lot better. They\u2019re getting their message out as to where they are.\u201d Lee, who often visits Birdies before heading to the stadium, praised the economic benefits of the games.\u201cI think it\u2019s great for the local economy. It brings business to our local businesses and keeps, so the folks that live in Sacramento have a nice place to go hang out and enjoy the game,\u201d Lee said. After the Mariners series, the A\u2019s will host Linden native Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees this weekend, one of the most famous sports franchises in the world. Guerrero also revealed during her State of the City address last week that the city is in talks to bring its own Major League Baseball team once the A\u2019s leave for Las Vegas. Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty previously announced in February that he and Guerrero were working on a campaign called \u201cMLB Forever.\u201dFurther details about the city\u2019s plans are expected to be shared on Thursday.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tWEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Baseball fans flocked to West Sacramento as the Athletics hosted the Seattle Mariners in a divisional rivalry, bringing crowds to Sutter Health Park and boosting local businesses. <\/p>\n
Keith Lee, an A\u2019s fan, expressed his confidence in the team, saying, \u201cWrite it down, drop the mic, whatever you want to do, the A\u2019s are going to win tonight.\u201d <\/p>\n
Fans from both sides showed their dedication.<\/p>\n
\u201cBorn and raised die-hard,\u201d said Jeff Shoji, a Mariners supporter from Reno, Nevada. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Corey Lewis flew down from Seattle to see his team play, saying, \u201cWe\u2019re big, huge Mariners fans, so glad to see them in another city.\u201d <\/p>\n
Local businesses like Drake\u2019s and Birdies saw a surge in customers, with Birdies\u2019 owner reporting two to three times the usual number of patrons on game days compared to days the A’s aren’t playing.<\/p>\n
Corey Lewis highlighted the appeal of supporting local establishments.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be way better going to a local spot than going to some corporate restaurant or bar,” Lewis said. “You\u2019re going to have a better time.\u201d <\/p>\n
Jordan Montoya, an A\u2019s fan from the Bay Area, reflected on the importance of supporting the team, especially as they prepare to move to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure most of these fans, it\u2019s our childhood. I think it\u2019s important for us growing up A\u2019s fans. Now we\u2019re grown, we have our own money to come support the team,\u201d Montoya said. <\/p>\n
West Sacramento Mayor Martha Guerrero welcomed the influx of visitors, emphasizing the positive impact on the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of our goals [is] more heads and beds and being able to get our hotels filled up,\u201d Guerrero said. \u201cI see that local businesses are doing a lot better. They\u2019re getting their message out as to where they are.\u201d <\/p>\n
Lee, who often visits Birdies before heading to the stadium, praised the economic benefits of the games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s great for the local economy. It brings business to our local businesses and keeps, so the folks that live in Sacramento have a nice place to go hang out and enjoy the game,\u201d Lee said. <\/p>\n
After the Mariners series, the A\u2019s will host Linden native Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees this weekend, one of the most famous sports franchises in the world. <\/p>\n
Guerrero also revealed during her State of the City address last week that the city is in talks to bring its own Major League Baseball team once the A\u2019s leave for Las Vegas. Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty previously announced in February that he and Guerrero were working on a campaign called \u201cMLB Forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Further details about the city\u2019s plans are expected to be shared on Thursday.<\/p>\n
See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baseball fans flocked to West Sacramento as the Athletics hosted the Seattle Mariners in a divisional rivalry, bringing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[58889,18661,30942,57372,54139,68607,137767,1431,1576,7391,32870,22533,121,123,122,58,2958,1557],"class_list":["post-332522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-100th-birthday","tag-as","tag-athletics","tag-birdies","tag-birdies-social-club","tag-drakes-the-barn","tag-drakes","tag-family","tag-friend","tag-local-businesses","tag-mariners","tag-oakland-as","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-west-sacramento","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}